What's happening to our education today?? :O

Education and Learning? Is there any difference between them? -YES and NO.

The world nowadays is becoming consumeristic day by day. It is because society is too busy being a consumer today, it undermines their thinking and perception towards education.

Education:

1. The act or process of educating or getting educated.

2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level.

4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

5. An instructive or enlightening experience.

Recently, there are people demanding free education to be given to all. The argument does not seem valid since education is actually being subsidized by the Government from primary school to secondary school. It's just that people need to work harder to get sponsorship/ scholarship from certain organizations and the Government. Why? It's because it's the only way to distinguish those who really want it and deserve it compared to those who take things for granted.

". . .where every person is issued with a Birth Certificate, getting a Birth Certificate can't count as an achievement. Winning a "competition" whose outcome is simply a matter of chance cannot be an achievement, but winning a competition which involves some skill or effort is an achievement." -Morrow, 36

So in a way, making tertiary education a bit exclusive from the schooling level is a way to maintain the quality of the certificates. If everyone wants it for the sake of getting a good job (to achieve personal goal)
- not for the sake of the love of knowledge itself- the country will end up having no one wanting to listen to each other just because each person feels that they are intellectual people, brilliant enough to have their opinions accepted. And at the end, NO ONE LISTENS.



These are the definitions that you can find from Google and online dictionaries. But really, how does one actually evaluate his or her level of knowledge? Is it only through education system (exams, quizzes, tests, assignments, etc)? Or is it that it is set by society that the only way to know one's intelligence is by looking at his or her certificates (degree, masters, PHD).

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Can education be bought and sold?

Should it be earned?

How do we define our achievements?

Does this influence the credibility of education itself?

How serious are the students nowadays in pursuing their education?

What is the value of education?

What happens to the exclusivity of education? - Everyone has the right to receive education. But in this context, we are discussing on tertiary education. Is everyone entitled for that?

Why must there be competition and why must we have the very same degree everyone else is having?

If it's true that education is for all, then why is it that university fees are expensive??

If everyone has a degree, what is the point of valuing the degree then?

We are buying our education in fact. Instead of really wanting the knowledge itself, we want to have that degree just so that we can get a better pay, a better job etc. All for this shallow world. And after all these questionings etc, I figured something that really makes us different from others, which is our perception towards knowledge taught by our religion. To have the knowledge to be used for others' benefits and for the sake of the Hereafter really beats the other purpose of what other people are aftering. Really, it's an honour to have this realization. Let's just hope that the people of the world realize this sooner or later coz we don't really have much time left.